First insights into the genetic characteristics and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis population collected during the first national tuberculosis prevalence survey of Lao PDR (2010–2011)

Table 3 Estimation of the clustering rate for the EAI, Beijing and T families

Characteristics	EAI	Beijing	T
Total number of isolates	155	29	11
Unique isolates	123	20	9
Clustered isolates	32	9	2
N. of clusters	15	3	1
Clustering rate	11.0%	20.7%	9.1%

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